Studies on the Capilary Picture at the Root of the Nail in Infectious Hepatitis Part 1 Studies on the Capillary Picture in Acute and Chronic Hepatitis

The capillary picture at the root of the nail was observed on 608 cases of epidemic hepatitis in connection with the results of their clinical findings, and was compared with the capillary picture at the root of the nail in health. The results are as follows. 1. In the cases being able to examine in the prodromal stage, the Ⅱ to Ⅴ form on morphological classification are greatly observed and the pathologic findings, the increase in the length and width of the capillary loop, the decrease in the number of capillary, the delay in the rate of blood flow, the formation of granules and the incomplete continuation and intermittence of blood flow etc, being accompanied with an indefinite findings on the cases with the severe pathologic change, are observed in some cases. 2. The most remarkable findings in the early stage to the predominant stage of hepatitis are edema and collapse-bleeding in the capillary loop, and the various changes observed in the prodromal stage are more reinforced in this stage. 3. The various capillary changes in the predominant stage are decreased in proportion to the course of disease, i.e. the convalescent stage and postponement or chronic stage. 4. The changes of the capillary picture at the root of the nail in epidemic hepatitis are also clarified being observed on the capillary of the various organ in the body, comparing the results of the above studies with the histological observations of the starform capillary dilatation on the surface of the living body, of the capillary picture of the various organs in the cadavers of hepatitis patients and also the pathohistological studies of their tissues.